Pith Number

pith:VFA3ZTFJ

pith:2013:VFA3ZTFJRWGKY5CSUV4MKJ5VFP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Determinism without causality

Franco Manessi, Giacomo M. D'Ariano, Paolo Perinotti

arxiv:1301.7578 v2 · 2013-01-31 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFA3ZTFJRWGKY5CSUV4MKJ5VFP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:29:25.218694Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a941bccca98d8cac7452a578c527b52bf240f13712ecfbc20ab97660911267ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.7578 · arxiv_version: 1301.7578v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.7578 · pith_short_12: VFA3ZTFJRWGK · pith_short_16: VFA3ZTFJRWGKY5CS · pith_short_8: VFA3ZTFJ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VFA3ZTFJRWGKY5CSUV4MKJ5VFP \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: a941bccca98d8cac7452a578c527b52bf240f13712ecfbc20ab97660911267ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "155234be61c0d8351d2eccb4cc9aaf1925d8b726e21963491d3bc69ff085c942",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-31T11:25:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40f3bdbb73bf66ffa9421763ad2b2f96d6e7741f9516b122528f697fbbdc8e23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.7578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}